Second Term Test

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Grammar -

1) American people celebrate Halloween on 31 October.

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2) The colonists didn’t celebrate first Thanksgiving festival in 1621.

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3) Children wear special clothes for the Helston Furry Dance.

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4) People eat turkey and pudding on Christmas.

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5) China made the first paper.

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6) Mexican decorated commentaries with colourful flowers.

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7) Every year people build bonfires on hilltops.

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8) During San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, people took the bulls to the center of the city.
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9) The Japanese bride and groom served tea to their parents.

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10) Indonesian women didn’t drink alcohol in the reception.

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Complete each sentence with one of the following

don’t have to have to must can’t should shouldn’t

1- You _________________ go to the school party but it will be fun! You ___________ take a
friend.
2- I can’t come to the dinner party tomorrow because my boss says I ____________ work late.
3- You ______ accept a lift form a person if you don’t know them.
4- I suppose you _______________ wear a tie at weddings, but I usually don’t.
5- You _______________ wear jeans at our school. We _______________wear a uniform.
6- I think we ___________ invite Tom and Julie – they’re good friends.

Fill the blanks with must, musn’t, should, shouldn’t, can, can’t, have to, don`t have to

1- Tell Mark and Tony they _______________ stay in bed till 9 o’clock if they want. They
don’t have school today.
2- I’m sorry , I __________ talk to you. I am very busy.
3- You look very tired. In my opinion, you ____________ work so hard.
4- Look at these clouds!!! I think you __________ take an umbrella.
5- Tell them they ____________ wash the carrots. I ‘ve already done it.
6- The rules in our school are very strict. We ___________ study hard and always be on time
for our lessons.
 7- The symptoms look very serious. You ______________ stay in bed for five days and take
these pills three times a day.
8- Can’t you see the sign, young man? You ___________ drive so fast on this road! It’s
forbidden.

Vocabulary - Complete the sentences with the right option and use each verb in the right verbal tense

1. Sheila is careful with money, she doesn’t _____________ very much on clothes.
(save/win/spend)
2. Right now he is _____________ money for charity.( earn/collect/save)
3. Last year, I went to the casino and I ______________ all my money. (win/lose/got)
4. I did not have money to pay the rent. Fortunately, my friend ___________ (lend/borrow/spend)
$100.-
5. I did not have money to pay the rent. I _______________ $100.- to my friend.
(lend/borrow/spend).

Reading - Read the article about the pandas and answer the questions using passive voice

Floyd Tangier Smith and his pandas

Floyd Tangier Smith was known as the Gentle Hunter. He decided to bring a panda to Europe
alive. Pandas live in bamboo forests in China and they are difficult to catch. His secret was
SUGAR! Tangier Smith’s assistant, Lin, used sugar lumps to bring them pandas out of the
forest and in three days, five pandas were caught. Then a baby panda walked out of the forest
into Tangier Smith’s arms. He had six pandas.
1- Whoonly
Pandas was eat
the bamboo
Gentle Hunter?
so 37,000 pieces of bamboo were cut for the journey. Each panda was
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measured and was given a name. They were called Ming, Chang, Tang, Sung, Grandma and
Happy.
2- How
Floyd many pandas
Tangier did 42
Smith had they catchtowith
mules carrysugar lumps?and the bamboo. Often a group stopped
the pandas
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for the pandas to swim or take a walk. The journey was very dangerous. Japan was at war with
China and they were bombed. Then they found some army trucks to take them to Hong Kong.
3- Howthey
When much bamboo
arrived in was
Hongcut Kong
for theall
journey?
six pandas were alive but they still had 15, 000
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kilometres to travel to England. On the voyage, Chang, the biggest panda, died but the rest
arrived in London at Christmas 1938.
4-How
The waspandas
other the bamboo
did notcarried in thebut
live long, firstMing
part was
of thethe
journey?
star of the London Zoo for six years.
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Even Princess Elizabeth, now the Queen, visited Ming.

1- Who was the Gentle Hunter?

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2- How many pandas did they catch with sugar lumps?

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3- How much bamboo was cut for the journey?

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4-How was the bamboo carried in the first part of the journey?
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5- Where were they taken by the army trucks?

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6- How many pandas arrived in London?

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7- Which famous person visited Ming?

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 Present simple passive: positive and negative statements

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE PRESENT SIMPLE PASSIVE OF THE VERBS IN
BRACKETS

1- The windows (not clean) very often.

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2- These rooms (use) very often.

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3- This shampoo (not test) on animals.

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4- This newspaper (read) by two million people every day.

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5- Paper (make) from wood.

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6- A lot of coffee (produce) in Brazil.

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7- Some of the best chocolate (make) in Belgium.

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8- These gates (not lock) at night.

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9- The same jokes (tell) in every country.

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Present simple passive: positive statements

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT VERB FROM THE BOX IN THE
PRESENT SIMPLE PASSIVE

GROW LEAVE
USUALLY KEEP

SHOW OFTEN EAT SHOW

GROW LEAVE USUALLY KEEP MAKE

TEACH USE SOMETIMES
SELL

1) In Britain, chips …………………………………. with vinegar.

2) Cheese………………………………….. from milk.
3) A cinema is a place where films………………………………….
4) In most zoos, the animals …………………………………………. in cages.
5) Oranges …………………………………….. in southern Spain.
6) Books ………………………………….. in supermarkets.
7) Dogs……………………………… by the police to catch criminals.
8) A gallery is a place where pictures ………………………………………….
9) Every year thousands of umbrellas …………………………………… on trains in
Britain.

Present simple passive

REWRITE THESE SENTENCES IN THE PASSIVE. LEAVE OUT THE WORDS IN BRAKETS

ALL ABOUT RICE…………..

 Did you know that half the people in the World eat rice every day?
 Here are some more facts about rice.

0- (The world) produces 520 millions tonnes of rice a year.

1- (They) grow and eat 90% of the world’s rice in Asia.
2- (You) need warm wet weather to grow rice.
3- (People) plant most of the world’s rice by hand.
4- In Japan and the USA (they) use machines to harvest the rice.
5- At weddings, (people) throw rice at the new couple.

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Past simple passive: positive statements

MATCH THE OBJECTS TO THE PEOPLE. THEN WRITE SENTENCES IN THE SIMPLE PAST
PASSIVE USING THE VERBS.

* The Mona Lisa Alexander Graham

Bell
* Jurasik Park Arthur Conan
Doyle
* The Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel
* The Sherlock Holmes The Egyptians
* Mickey Mouse Leonardo Da
Vinci
* The Pyramids Steven Spielberg
* The telephone Walt Disney

create direct build (x2) invent paint write

Who was the Mona Lisa painted by?

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.

1- ________________________________________________________________
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2- ________________________________________________________________
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3- ________________________________________________________________
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4- ________________________________________________________________
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5 ________________________________________________________________
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6 _________________________________________________________________

Past simple passive

COMPLETE THE PASSAGE WITH THE CORRECT VERB IN THE PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE

drive introduce invent invite meet show take teach write

We’re really enjoying the trip! as you know, we are here because we were
___________ to do an Exchange with a Japanese high school. We ___________ at
Tokyo airport by the headteacher, Mrs Suzuki. Then we _________ to the college
in a taxi. It was surprised because they drive on the left in Japan, like in
England. At he college we ____________ to the Japanese students. They are all
very friendly.
In the evening we ____________ to a sumo match. Sumo ____________ 2,000
years ago. Did You know that? The rules _______________ in the seventeenth
century. In those days, there were women sumo wrestlers.
The next day we _________ around the college. Then it was time for our first
Japanese class. We _______ some useful words but I’ ve forgotten them!